Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-03-07
State News items.

w. C. Browns house at Richford was
burned recently; loss $1,000; insurance
| $500.
It is expected that a soldiers monu
ment will be erected at MiddeburY the
coming season.
Hon. L. p. Poland who is in Burlington
in attendance on the United States Court,
has been seriously ill, bat is now recov-
ering.
Charles NJ. Marsh, II former member OF
the Winsor county bar, and prominent
Mason, died Saturday last at Lake View
Retreat, Burlington
Ezra Pecue of Addison committed sui
eide last Wednesday by taking arsenic.
He was IA well-to-do farmer and leaves a
wife and four children.
Gen. Stephen Thomas of Montpelier
will deliver the Memorial day address at
East Thetford Commander Blodgett of
ST. Johnsbury at Manchester Depot.
The following patents have been grant
ed to Vermonters A J. Kay, Beebe Plain,
case for postage stamps, etc; Edward l..
Sibley, Bennington, rivet; A. E. Shack
ford, Brattleboro, incubator.
General Manager Hobart and Mrs. Ho-
bait, accompanied by DR.. o. f. FasSett,
and Mrs Fassett, left last Tuesday for an
extended trip through Mexico and Cali
fornia. The party will be absent two
months or more
H. G. Wilcox of Bangor, n. Y, injured
in the late railroad accident at Hartford,
died at that place on the afternoon of
Feb. 2Sth. Erysipelas setting in caused
death. This makes the total number of
deaths resulting from the accident 30.
The effects OF Il severe winter are un-
mlstakably shown in the usual prevalence
Of pneumonia in nearly every quarter of
the state. According To official records
seven and one-half feet of snow had fallen
up the first of this month.
H. c. Whites mill at North Bennington
was totally burned Thursday The loss Is
from $4,000 to $4,000 and insurance
SIS, 900. The cause of the fire il unknown.
and three stories high aud made fancy
boxes.
The engineer of the down mail train
for Boston soon after leaving Mount EIol-
Iy saw IA man lying beside the track.
Stopping the train, it proved to be Will
VIM of Mount Holly. 1t is supposed
that the up mail, which had just passed,
struck him, as he was killed instantly,
the top and back of his head being cut off
also one arm.
Workmen representing about 200 en-
ployes of the large marble companies AT
West Rutland have demanded an increase
of pay and answer is to be gwen by the
companies March 2. A strike is expected
if the reply is unsatisfactory. The cnm-
panies thus included ia the demand are
Vermont Marble Company, West Rut-
land division, Sheldon & Sons, Gibson &
Woodtin, Dorset Marble Company and the
old Esperanza 1t was expected that the
men at Center Rutland and Proctor would
unite in the demand, but they have not.
At Burlington, Feb. 2sth, the af-
ternoOn and evening sessions of the Unit
ed States Court were occupied with the
trial of Elijah Magoon. cousin of Edison
Magoon of Orange county, the moOnshin-
er, who was convicted on Saturday night.
The principal witness for the prosecution
is Loren Magoon, who turned states evil
dence, and his testimony was essentially
the same as that presented in the former
case. The cases against the other Ma
goons have been continued on bail till
the next term, and the conclusion Of the
present case will end the trial for the
present term.